News from Campuses
Fall 2007

The University of Texas - Pan American

The Mathematics Search Committee, chaired by Dr. Andras Balogh, conducted a national search to fill seven tenured/tenure-track professor/associate/assistant professor positions effective September 1, 2007. Over 257 applications for tenure-track faculty positions were received and many interviewed on campus, leading to the hiring of the following faculty members:

Dr. Barnabas Bede, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Mathematics from Babes-Bolyai University, Romania in 2004. Prior to coming to UTPA, he taught in the Mathematics Department at The University of Texas-El Paso. He has published twenty-five research papers in refereed journals in research areas such as fuzzy differential equations, image processing and fuzzy numbers.

Dr. Arunava Mukherjea, Professor, Ph.D. in Probability and Applied Mathematics from Wayne State University in 1968. He has published over one-hundred original research papers in probability, functional analysis, applied mathematics and statistics. Ten of his research papers were published in the Transactions and Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Annals of Probability and Mathematical Annalen. He has published five graduate level textbooks and research monographs in functional analysis, probability and statistics. He directed sixteen Ph.D. dissertations in probability and statistics, applied mathematics, and functional analysis. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Theoretical Probability published by Springer Verlag. He was also a Senior Fulbright Professor in India and has received several NSF and other research grants.

Dr. Mau Nam Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Mathematics from Wayne State University in 2007. He published seven research papers in high quality refereed journals. His areas of expertise include applied mathematics and nonlinear functional analysis.

Dr. Constantin Onica, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Mathematics from Texas A&M University in 2005. He published five good quality research papers in refereed journals. His research expertise includes differential equations, applied mathematics and operator theory. He has prior teaching experience at both Indiana University and Texas A&M University.

Dr. Ranadhir Roy, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Mathematics from The University of Hertfordshire, London, U.K. in 1996, M.S. in Applied Computing Technology from Middlesex University, London, UK in 1993, and M.S. in Numerical Analysis from Brunel University, U.K. in 1975. He has published twenty-one research papers in refereed journals in applied mathematics, optimization and tomography, and has written two chapters in two published books. He received a major NIH research grant in the amount of over $75,000 for 2007-2008.

Dr. Jasang Yoon, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Iowa. He published eight high quality research papers in applied mathematics and functional analysis. Some of his research was published in the best mathematics journals, including Transactions of the American Math Society, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society and Journal of Functional Analysis. He previously taught at Iowa State University.