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Elham Ahmadi

Tyler Barker

Erin Beyerstedt

I am originally from Wisconsin which is where I did my undergraduate work. I graduated from Carthage College in 2003 with majors in mathematics & biology and minors in religion & business. I spent the following year teaching math at a private high school. From 2004-2006 I attended Western Washington University and earned my master's degree in mathematics. In the fall of 2006 I began work here at Tulane in the PhD program, supported by a VIGRE fellowship. This is now my fifth year and I am working with Victor Moll, focusing on combinatorics. In my spare time I enjoy going to the gym, pottery, exploring the city, dancing, listening to live music, sampling the amazing food found in nola, traveling, and spending time with friends.

Peter Bierhorst

I am originally from New York City. I graduated from Harvard in 2004 with a degree in Mathematics. After graduation, I worked in politics for a while, then tutored math for a living, living in New York City and then in Portland, OR. Eventually it became clear that I missed learning math and hated cold weather, so I moved south and started here at Tulane in Fall 2008. My mathematical interests include Probability and Topology. I enjoy a New Orleans staple, the fried shrimp po-boy sandwich, and am a fan of New Orleans style piano.

Jason Calmes

I grew up in a small town near Hammond, La, not far from New Orleans. I attended Southeastern Louisiana University, where I received a B.S. Mathematics, a B.S. in Physics, and a B.A. in English. Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at Tulane University where I have received a M.S. in Mathematics and am pursuing a M.S. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Mathematics. I am studying orbispaces and their homology and cohomology with Dr. Terry Lawson and Dr. Weimin Chen. I am supported by a Board of Regents Fellowship and have been an instructor in both Calculus and Probability & Statistics. In my meager spare time, I maintain my domain (http://www.overmen.net/), play and record music (guitar, bass), read sci-fi, fantasy, and philosophy, and keep up with my favorite TV shows and football (God's favorite sport).

Yunlong Chen

Yuanzhen Cheng

Karen Corson

Shumo Cui

Jeremy Dewar

Wenwei Ding 

Yi Dong

Feng Du

Ellis Fenske

Marian Hernandez-Viera

Franz Hoffmann

Jianjun Huang

Shanshan Jiang

Lin Jiu

Kelley Johnson

Dmitry Kurochkin

In 2004 Dmitry graduated from Moscow State University, where he earned his B.S. & M.S. in Physics (Magna Cum Laude). Then he came to New Orleans and joined Tulane University as a graduate student.

Minlan Lei

Huicong Li

Yang Liu

Yu Liu

Qingyang Luo

Meng Ma

K. Nicole Meyer

Andreas Michaelides

Jason Miller

I was born and raised in Hamden, CT. I graduated from Marist College in 2007 with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics with a Chemistry concentration. My mathematical interests are mostly applied, including fluid dynamics and computation. In my spare time I like to play sports (hockey, baseball, golf, and tennis) and music (guitar and drums). I also consider myself somewhat of an outdoorsman as I like to go camping and fly-fishing.

Hoang-Ngan Nguyen

Augustine O'Keefe

Anthony Polizzi

Michael Pollack

Cody Pond

Jeff Pullen

I grew up in Roswell, GA which is a northern suburb of Atlanta. I graduated from Berry College in 2006 with a B.S. in Mathematics before coming to the Ph.D. program at Tulane. My research interests include geometric topology, knot theory, and probability based homology theory. When I'm not doing math, I enjoy playing sports, video games, and hanging out with my friends.

Chao Qi

Zhuolin Qu

Christina Rosch

James Salvatore

I'm originally from central New Jersey. I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2009 with a degree in Mathematics and spent the following year tutoring New Jersey high school students in math and science. I've also started a mathblog to teach higher-level maths to interested high school and undergraduate students. My math interests are currently topology and algebra. When I'm not doing math, I'm interested in playing instruments (whatever ones I can get my hands on), cooking, playing Super Nintendo games, and biking.

Shanshan Shen

Armin Straub

While I basically enjoy all kinds of Mathematics, I am currently focusing on a very enjoyable mix of combinatorics, special functions and computer algebra, usually related to the evaluation of integrals (sure enough: my advisor is Victor Moll). I spent my first year at Tulane in 2006/2007 and then went back to Germany, my home country, for a year to finish a diploma and graduate from TU Darmstadt. Since 2008 I'm back at Tulane. In my free time I particularly enjoy eating, working out, playing poker, watching the stock market, experimenting, and playing soccer (though I can't even shoot straight).

Mangyao Sun

Yuan Teng

Todor Todorov

Tim Twelbeck

Qi Wang

Tong Wu

Tian Xiang

Qiang Yang

Xiangfeng Yang

I am from China, where I got my master degree in mathematics in 2007. Now I am a Ph.D student at Tulane math department. Here I want to learn something about probability theory and stochastic processes, which may lead to my thesis. I like Ping Pang during my spare time.

Yang Yang

Jianning Zhao

Wei Zhao

Dong Zhu