Department of Mathematics         and Computer Science

Ben  Davis

Email: bdavis@stmarys-ca.edu Webpage:  Ben Davis

Ben Davis is in his fourth year in the Department, joining us from Penn State University where he was a S. Chowla Research Postdoctoral Fellow. His Ph.D. is from Berkeley and B.A. from Reed.

Charlie  Hamaker

Email: chamaker@stmarys-ca.edu Webpage:

Charles Hamaker joined the SMC faculty in 1985 following stints at MIT and the University of Kansas. He teaches extensively in the computer science program as well as in the mathematics curriculum. He also teaches regularly in the Collegiate Seminar Program and served as the acting director of that program for the 2001-2002 academic year. While his research interests have focussed mainly on mathematical tomography, he pursued a project in numerical linear algebra during his Spring 2001 sabbatical leave.
 

Brian  Jersky

Email: bnj1@stmarys-ca.edu Webpage:

Brian Jersky is the Dean of the School of Science, joining the College in the fall of 2006 after a distinguished career as a statistician and chair at Sonoma State University.

Chris  Jones

Email: cjones@stmarys-ca.edu Webpage:

Chris Jones spent three years in visiting postions at the University of Virginia and Washington and Lee University before coming to California. His research interests lie in the field of Coding Theory and its links to projective geometry. He is a die hard fan of Manchester United, the world's greatest soccer team.

Adam  Lucas

Email: arl3@stmarys-ca.edu Webpage:  Adam Lucas

Adam Lucas has been at SMC since 2006. He joins us from UCSF where he was an NIH postdoctoral fellow. His Ph. D. is from MIT and his B.A. is from McGill University.

Lidia  Luquet

Email: lluquet@stmarys-ca.edu Vita:  CV (Microsoft)

Lidia Luquet, whose interests include classical analysis and applications of mathematics to the life sciences, has a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her collaboration with Rutgers University and other institutions has resulted in an NSF grant. This award funded a Reconnect Workshop for college faculty at Saint Mary's College in the summer of 2004.

Michael  Nathanson

Email: man6@stmarys-ca.edu Webpage:

Michael Nathanson joins the SMC faculty in 2006 after spending a year at Kenyon College in Ohio. He did undergraduate work at Brown University and earned his Ph.D. in 2005 at Northeastern University in his native Boston. He hopes that his research in quantum information theory will someday help him land his dream job, that of organist at Fenway Park.

Brother  Raphael Patton

Email: rpatton@stmarys-ca.edu Webpage: Br. L. Raphael Patton, FSC

A Concord-native, Br Raphael, '63 has been on the faculty since 1970. At Toronto he finished his degree in Linear Geometry. He has also served as a tutor in the Integral Program for thirty years.

Kathy  Porter

Email: kporter@stmarys-ca.edu Webpage: Professor Kathryn Porter

Dr. Kathryn Porter is a Full Professor. She earned her Ph. D. in 1987 at the University of Delaware. Dr. Porter began teaching at St. Mary's College in 1990. Her research interests include the mathematical areas of Function Spaces, Topology, Continuum Theory, and Quasi-Uniform Spaces.

Jane  Sangwine-Yager

Email:sangwine@stmarys-ca.edu Vita:  CV (dvi)  CV (pdf)  Webpage:

Jane Sangwine-Yager is now Professor Emeritus, enjoying her time in the Sierra fothills. Her expertise is in geometric inequalities, essentially, relationships between the volume and surface of convex bodies.  

Jim  Sauerberg

Email: jsauerbe@stmarys-ca.edu Webpage:  Jim Sauerberg

Jim Sauerberg has now sampled both coasts and the midwest, having spent time in Rhode Island at Brown University (Ph.D. 1993), New York at Union College (1993-1996) and Wisconsin (B.S. 1998). His interests lie in anything involving integers, baseball, or his children. Thus far the intersection of the three has been unsatisfactory, but he hasn't given up hope.