Faculty and Staff

       Math Dept


Department Chair: Rebecca LeDocq

LeDocq

Dr. Rebecca LeDocq, Professor   (1991)
M.S., Ph.D., University of Iowa
B.S., Moorhead State University
specialties:  Abstract Algebra

Phone:  (608) 785-6615    
Office:  1025 Cowley Hall
Email:  rledocq@uwlax.edu
Web: www.uwlax.edu/faculty/LeDocq

Academic Department Associate

Auby Karry Auby     (1978)
Phone:  (608) 785-6603    
Office:1021 Cowley Hall
Email:  kauby@uwlax.edu
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/auby
Fax:  (608) 785-6602

Faculty

Robert Allen Robert F. Allen, Associate Professor      (2009)
B.S., Ph.D., George Mason University
B.S., M.S., University of Virginia
specialties:  Complex Analysis, Operator Theory

Phone:  (608) 785-8383
Office:   1015 Cowley Hall
Email:   rallen@uwlax.edu
Web:   www.uwlax.edu/faculty/allen
Jeff Baggett photo
Jeffrey Baggett, Associate Professor
    (1999)
M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University
B.S., University of Portland
specialties:  Numerical Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Phone:  (608) 785-8393; 
Office:  1026 Cowley Hall
Email:  jbaggett@uwlax.edu    
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/baggett
 
Barbara Bennie photo Barbara Bennie , Associate Professor    (2006)
M.S., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
B.S., Bethel College
specialties:  Statistics

Phone: (608) 785-6605; 
Office: 1028 Cowley
Email: bbennie@uwlax.edu    
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/bennie
 
Melissa Bingham Melissa Bingham, Associate Professor   (2009)
Ph.D., Iowa State University
B.S., M.S.,  University of North Dakota
specialties:  Statistics

Phone: (608) 785-6682
Office: 1032 Cowley Hall
Email:  mbingham@uwlax.edu
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/bingham
Jeffrey Boyle photo Jeffrey Boyle, Associate Professor    (1988)
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Iowa
specialties:  Topology

Phone:  (608) 785-6611; 
Office:  1033 Cowley Hall
Email:  jboyle@uwlax.edu
 
Eric Eager Eric Eager, Assistant Professor   (2012)
M.S., Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
B.S., Moorhead State University
specialties:  Mathematical Biology

Phone: (608) 785-6608
Office: 1011 Cowley Hall
Email:  eeager@uwlax.edu

Abdulaziz Elfessi photo Abdulaziz Elfessi, Associate Professor   (1999)
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Southwestern Louisiana
specialties:  Statistics

Phone:  (608)  785-6612    
Office:  2031 Cowley Hall
Email: aelfessi@uwlax.edu
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/elfessi/
 
Robert Hoar photo
Robert Hoar, Professor
     (1995)
Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
M.S., Ph.D., Montana State University
B.S., Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology
specialties:  Numerical Analysis, Applied Mathematics
 
Phone:  (608) 785-8159   
Office:  227 Graff Main Hall
Email: rhoar@uwlax.edu    
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/Mathematics/Personal/hoar
 
Heather Hulett photo Heather Hulett, Associate Professor     (2002)
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A., M.A., University of Kansas
specialties:  Ring theory, Combinatorics

Phone:  (608) 785-8384    
Office:  1024 Cowley Hall
Email:  hhulett@uwlax.edu    
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/hulett
Karl Kattchee photo Karl Kattchee, Associate Professor     (2001)
M.S., Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
B.S., University of Chicago
specialties:  Commutative Rings and Monoids

Phone:  (608) 785-6616    
Office:  1036 Cowley Hall
Email:  kkattchee@uwlax.edu    
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/kattchee
Susan Kelly photo Susan Kelly, Professor    (1992) 
M.A., Ph.D., Washington University
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
specialties:  Harmonic Analysis, Wavelets

Phone:  (608) 785-6610    
Office:  1029 Cowley Hall
Email:  skelly@uwlax.edu    
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/kelly
Jennifer Kosiak photo Jennifer Kosiak, Associate Professor (2004)
Ph.D., Montana State University
B.S., M.S., University of North Dakota
specialties:  Mathematics Education

Phone:  (608) 785-8385   
Office:  1004 Cowley Hall
Email:  jkosiak@uwlax.edu 
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/kosiak
 
 
LeDocq Rebecca LeDocq, Professor  (1991)
M.S., Ph.D., University of Iowa
B.S., Moorhead State University
specialties:  Abstract Algebra

Phone:  (608) 785-6615    
Office:  1025 Cowley Hall
Email:  rledocq@uwlax.edu
Web: www.uwlax.edu/faculty/LeDocq
Andrew Matchett photo Andrew Matchett, Associate Professor  (1982)
Ph.D., University of Illinois
B.S., University of Chicago
specialties: Abstract Algebra, Group Representations, Statistics

Phone:  (608) 785-8391   
Office:  1031 Cowley Hall
Email:  amatchett@uwlax.edu
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/Matchett
Heather Matison photo Heather Mathison, Assistant Professor  (2009)
M.S., Ph.D., Montana State University
B.A., Westminster College
specialties:  Mathematics Education

Phone: (608) 785-6683
Office: 1002 Cowley Hall
Email:  hmathison@uwlax.edu
Jenni McCool photo Jenni McCool, Assistant Professor  (2010)
Ph.D., Illinois State University
B.S., M.S., Western Illinois University
specialties:  Mathematics Education

Phone: (608) 785-8667
Office: 1005 Cowley Hall
Email: jmccool@uwlax.edu
James Peirce photo James Peirce, Associate Professor  (2004)
M.A., Ph.D., University of California-Davis
B.S., University of Washington
specialties:  Mathematical Biology, Fluid dynamics

Phone:  (608) 785-6604   
Office:  1027 Cowley Hall
Email: jpeirce@uwlax.edu  
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/peirce
David Reineke photo David Reineke, Professor    (1999)
Ph.D., Air Force Institute of Technology
B.S., M.S., Wright State University
specialties:  Applied statistics

Phone:  (608) 785-6607    
Office:  1030 Cowley Hall
Email: dreineke@uwlax.edu   
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/reineke
Bruce Riley
Bruce Riley, Professor 
(1985) 
Dean, College of Science and Health
M.S., Ph.D., Montana State University
B.S., Pacific Lutheran University
specialties:  Numerical analysis, Applied mathematics

Phone:  (608) 785-8218   
Office:  105 Graff Main Hall
Email:  briley@uwlax.edu    
Steven Senger photo
Steven Senger, Professor
   (1983)
B.S., Ph.D., Purdue University,
specialties:  Scientific visualization

Phone:  (608) 785-8387
Office:  225 Wing Technology
Email: ssenger@uwlax.edu
Web:  Scientific Visualization Research

Sherwin Toribio photo Sherwin Toribio, Associate Professor    (2006)
M.S., Ph.D., Bowling Green State University
B.S., Ateneo De Manila University
specialties:  Statistics

Phone:  (608) 785-6606; 
Office: 1023 Cowley Hall
Email:  storibio@uwlax.edu    
Web: www.uwlax.edu/faculty/toribio
Wendt Ted Wendt, Assistant Professor    (2008)
M.S., Ph.D., University of Iowa
B.S., Carroll College
specialties:  Applied Math, Computer Simulations

Phone:  (608) 785-6613; 
Office: 1018 Cowley Hall
Email:  twendt@uwlax.edu    
Web: www.uwlax.edu/faculty/wendt
Todd Will photo Todd G. Will, Associate Professor    (2002)
M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A., Carleton College
specialties: Graph Theory, Mathematica

Phone:  (608)  785-6650    
Office:  2030 Cowley Hall
Email:  twill@uwlax.edu   
Web:  www.uwlax.edu/faculty/will
Huiya Yan Huiya Yan, Associate Professor    (2009)
Ph.D., West Virginia University
M.S., Beijing Institute of Technology
B.S., Shandong University of Technology
specialties: Graph Theory

Phone: (608) 785-8390
Office:   1013 Cowley Hall
Email:  hyan@uwlax.edu
Web:   www.uwlax.edu/faculty/yan
   

Lecturers

  Benjamin Anderson
1003 Cowley Hall
(608) 785-6609
Email:  banderson@uwlax.edu
  Gary Dickinson
B.S., M.S.T., University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Phone:  (608) 785-8388  
Office:  116 Cowley Hall
Email:  gdickinson@uwlax.edu
 
Mark T. Mathison
B.S., Linfield College
M.S.,Ph.D., Montanna State University
Phone:  (608) 785-6617
Office:  1034 Cowley Hall
Email:  mmathison@uwlax.edu
 
Maggie McHugh
Learning Center Director
B.S., M.S., University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Phone:  (608) 785-8826
Office:  1007 Cowley Hall
mmchugh@uwlax.edu
 
David Olson
B.S., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Phone:  (608) 785-8388
Office:  116 Cowley Hall
Email:  dolson@uwlax.edu
William Shilla photo
William Schilla
B.S., Univ. of Minnesota Duluth
M.E.P.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Phone:  (608) 785-8388   
Office: 116 Cowley Hall
Email:  wschilla@uwlax.edu
James Sobota James Sobota (Emeritus)

Phone:  (608) 785-8392
Office:  1016 Cowley Hall
Email:  jsobota@uwlax.edu
Web:  
  Judy Young
M.A., Viterbo University
Phone:  (608) 785-8388 
Office: 116 Cowley Hall
Email:  jyoung2@uwlax.edu

Emeriti Faculty

NAME YEARS STATUS
David Bange 1971-2003 Retired
Anthony Barkauskas 1972-2003 Retired
Thomas Breiter 1966-2005 Retired
Arthur Brownell, Jr. 1965-1995 Retired
Roland Christensen 1960-1992 Deceased
Roger Erickson 1966-1999 Retired
Linda Host 1983-2005 Deceased
David Koster David Koster photo 1985-2012
M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., University of Michigan
specialties:  Abstract Algebra, Group Theory
Retired
Gerald Niedfeldt 1977-2003 Retired
Dennis O'Brien 1969-2002 Retired
Arden Ross 1968-2000 Retired
John Scheidt 1973-2004 Retired
Charles Schelin 1971-2006 Retired
Helen Skala 1989-2007 Retired
James Sobota 1970-2002 Retired
E. Keith Swanson 1957-1990 Deceased
Arnold Temte 1949-1986 Deceased
Jack Unbehaun 1968-2000 Retired
J.D. Wine 1970-1999 Retired