The Department faculty have interests that include such areas as algebra, analysis, combinatorics, control theory, analysis, difference and differential equations, graph theory, linear algebra, logic, mathematical biology, mathematics education, numerical analysis, optimization, and topology.
Despite their diverse interests, the faculty are unified in their commitment to provide a strong education within the department, while fostering healthy and vigorous interrelationships among the various disciplines. A list of faculty members and their divisional affiliations and specializations is shown below.

Faculty

Ghidewon Abay-Asmerom (804) 828-6240 Harris Hall 4104A	Topological and Algebraic Graph Theory. Interested in Graph products and covering graph embeddings, in particular in minimal (genus) and isogonal embeddings of the tensor (direct), strong tensor, and augmented tensor products. The embedding techniques involve voltage graphs and surgery. Distance in graph products, total perfect codes of graph products and enumerative combinatorics are other interests.
Moa Apagodu (804) 828-5984 Harris Hall 4104	Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Computer Algebra/Algorithmic Proof Method, and Experimantal Mathematics.
Kevin Beanland (804) 828-4832 Harris Hall 4161	Functional analysis and the geometry of infinite dimensional Banach spaces.
John F. Berglund (804) 828-5675 Harris Hall 4146	Semigroups on topological spaces in which the operations of the semigroup are tied to the space in such a way that various continuity properties obtain. Questions of representation theory and analysis on the semigroups are investigated.
Danail Bonchev (804) 827-7375 Harris Hall 3132	Applied graph theory, applied information theory (quantitative characterization of molecular structures and biochemical networks, their connectivity, metric, subgraphs and cliques, centrality and complexity patterns). Network analysis, cellular automata modeling dynamics of networks and pathways, applications to biomedical research (evolutionary studies, markers for early diagnostics and survival, predicting biological function of genes/proteins.)
Wes Cain (804) 828-5948 Harris Hall 4178	Ordinary and partial differential equations with applications to medicine and physiology, especially cardiac electrophysiology.
David Chan (804) 828-5917 Harris Hall 4179	Discrete and continuous dynamical systems applied to various areas of mathematical biology including areas in medicine, epidemiology, population dynamics, and ecological and environmental sciences.
Dan Cranston (804) 828-3384 Harris Hall 4109	Graph theory, combinatorics, algorithm design; in particular, structural and extremal graph theory and graph coloring.
Jim Deveney (804) 828-4704 Harris Hall 4107	Commutative Algebra
Aimee Ellington (804) 828-5521 Harris Hall 4158	Mathematics Education: Research interests include using meta-analysis to analyze pedagogical practices in mathematics, the impact of Mathematics Specialists in elementary and middle school classrooms in Virginia, the role of calculators in the study of mathematics, and efforts to reform college algebra.
Richard Hammack (804) 828-6237 Harris Hall 4105	Graph theory, especially product graphs and cycle structures; also the interconnections between mathematics and the visual arts.
William Haver (804) 828-1302 Oliver Hall 3007 Harris Hall 4160	Infinite dimensional topology. Work focused on determining situations in which homeomorphisms could be continuously approximated by piecewise linear homeomorphisms. In recent years directed projects to improve instruction and student learning of mathematics from kindergarten through college.
Candace Kent (804) 828-5585 Harris Hall 4180	Difference Equations and Applications to Biology: Current research in cardiology (in particular, analysis of a model for ventricular tachyarrhythmias) and mathematical neuroscience.
Craig Larson (804) 828-5576 Harris Hall 4106	Graph Theory, Chemical Graph Theory, and Automated Conjecture-Making. In particular, in algorithms and bounds for the independence number of a graph, characterizations and structure theorems related to these, and algorithms for computing invariants of chemical interest.
Andy Lewis (804) 828-7055 Harris Hall 4101	Set theory, model theory, descriptive set theory, recursion theory, and large cardinals and determinacy
Lon Mitchell (804) 828-5974 Harris Hall 4162	Functional Analysis, Graph Theory, Linear Algebra.
Norma Ortiz-Robinson (804) 828-5983 Harris Hall 4170	Optimal control and nonsmooth analysis, especially of time delay systems
Angela Reynolds (804) 828-5664 Harris Hall 4176	Mathematical Biology: ordinary and partial differential equation models of acute inflammation, lung inflammation, and wound healing.
Hassan Sedaghat (804) 828-5806 Harris Hall 4182	Discrete dynamical systems and nonlinear difference equations with applications to scientific modeling
Rebecca Segal (804) 828- 4756 Harris Hall 4177	Mathematical Biology with a focus on numerical solutions to systems of partial and ordinary differential equations. Current application areas include respiratory system dynamics and wound healing dynamics.
John Schmeelk VCU Quatar Campus	Applied Mathematics
Dewey Taylor (804) 828-5569 Harris Hall 4110	Graph theory and algebra. In particular, product graphs, domination in graphs and algebraic monoids.
William Terrell (804) 828-4836 Harris Hall 4168	Differential equations; differential-algebraic equations; systems and control theory (mathematical control theory); controllability, observability, stability and stabilization, input-output and state space system representations.
Joy Whitenack (804) 828-5901 Harris Hall 4159-A	Mathematics education
	Emeritus Faculty
Reuben Farley (804) 828-1319 Oliver Hall 3011	Topological Algebra
C. Michael Lohr	Mathematics Education
P.N. Raychowdhury (804) 828-5230 Harris Hall 4159	Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics.