Faculty

Get to know the Mathematics and Computer Science Department Professors at Occidental College! Below, find links to individual pages on each professor, outlining professor information (Title, Research Area, Office Hours, Phone, E-mail, and links to the courses each professor teaches), and a brief abstract on each professor's research topics.

Buckmire, Ron
Associate Professor
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Computational aerodynamics, scientific computation, numerical analysis, mathematical modelling

Knoerr, Alan
Associate Professor
B.A. Oberlin College; Sc.M., Ph.D. Brown University
Dynamics and optimization

Lawrence, Don
Adjunct Assistant Professor
B.A. Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D. U.C. Santa Barbara
Game Theory, Topology

Lengyel, Tamás
Professor
Diploma, Ph.D. Eötvös University, Budapest
Probability, combinatorics and number theory; Stirling numbers of the second kind

Levitt, John
Adjunct Assistant Professor
B.S. U. Wisconsin- Milwaukee; Ph.D. U.C. Santa Barbara
Algebraic Geometry

Lynch, Frank
Adjunct Assistant Professor
B.A. Linfield College; M.S., Ph.D. University of Utah
Mathematical Biology

Miller, Jeff
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Naimi, Ramin - department chair
Professor 
B.S. University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
3-Manifold Topology, Knot Theory, Topological Graph Theory, Graph Theory

Pavelescu, Elena
Adjunct Assistant Professor
B.A. University of Bucharest;  Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Contact Geometry, Low-dimensional Topology, Braid Theory

Sundberg, Eric
Assistant Professor
B.A. Occidental College; Ph.D. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Positional game theory, combinatorics, and graph theory

Tinberg, Nalsey
Professor
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles; M.Sc., Ph.D. University of Warwick, England
Algebra

Tollisen, Greg
Assistant Professor
B.S. University of Portland
M.S. California Institute of Technology

 

Emeriti Faculty

Benedict Freedman
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Non-Euclidean geometry and history and philosophy of mathematics

Don Goldberg
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
B.A. New College; A.M., Ph.D. Dartmouth College; J.D. University of California, Los Angeles

Joan Rand Moschovakis
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Foundations of intuitionistic logic and analysis

Thomas Slobko
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Chief Information Officer (retired)
A.B., Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

Former Faculty

Gallegos, Angela
Associate Professor
B.S. New York University;  Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Mathematical Physiology and Biology

Hoffman, Rodney
Adjunct Assistant Professor
B.A. Rice University; M.S. University of Southern California
Hoffman works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and with the College Board Advanced Placement Program in Computer Science

Staff

Marguerite Dessornes
Senior Administrative Assistant
Email: mdessornes@oxy.edu