Rob Beezer
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Professor of Mathematics

Professor Beezer received his BS from University of Santa Clara and MS and PhD from University of Illinois. He teaches calculus, algebra (linear and abstract), combinatorics and cryptography. His research interests are primarily in graph theory (especially regular graphs and algebraic graph theory), but is also interested in combinatorics as a whole. Professor Beezer has been teaching at Puget Sound since 1984.

beezer@pugetsound.edu

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James Bernhard 
PhD, Harvard University
Professor of Mathematics

Professor Bernhard received his BA degree from Princeton University and a PhD degree from Harvard University.

jbernhard@pugetsound.edu

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Sigrun Bodine
PhD, University of Southern California
Professor of Mathematics

Professor Bodine received BS degrees in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Ulm, Germany. She earned a MA degree in Mathematics from San Diego State University, a Diplom (MS) in Physics from the University of Ulm, and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Southern California.  She teaches calculus, linear algebra, and upper-division courses in analysis. Her research interests include differential and difference equations as well as in time scales. She has been at Puget Sound since 1998.

sbodine@pugetsound.edu

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Martin Jackson (Chair, Mathematics)
PhD, University of Oregon
Professor of Mathematics

Professor Jackson received a BS degree from the University of Puget Sound in 1984, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Oregon in 1985 and 1990, respectively. His area of research is differential geometry. Professor Jackson has been teaching at Puget Sound since 1990.

martinj@pugetsound.edu

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Brad Richards (Chair, Computer Science)
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professor of Computer Science

Professor Richards holds BA degrees in Physics and Computer Science, an MSc in Computer Science, and earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin — Madison, where his research was on custom memory-system support for distributed shared-memory parallel computers. In addition to his continuing work on parallel and distributed computing, Dr. Richards is active in Computer Science education, having authored numerous papers on pedagogy and curricular issues. Dr. Richards has been teaching at Puget Sound since 2005.

brichards@pugetsound.edu

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Mike Spivey
PhD, Princeton University
Professor of Mathematics

Professor Spivey earned a BS from Samford University, an MS from Texas A&M University, and an MA and a PhD from Princeton University. He works in operations research and combinatorics. Professor Spivey has been teaching at Puget Sound since 2005.

mspivey@pugetsound.edu

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David Chiu (On Sabbatical Leave)
PhD, The Ohio State University
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Professor Chiu received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Ohio State University. He teaches courses in the introductory computer science sequence, database systems, high-performance computing, and operating systems. David's research interests include issues in distributed and cloud computing, and large-scale data management.

dchiu@pugetsound.edu

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Adam Smith
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Professor Smith is from Portland, Oregon. He earned his BA in 1999 from Lewis and Clark College, and his PhD in 2009 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He teaches courses in artificial intelligence, algorithms, and bioinformatics. His research interests are in modeling biologically-significant time series, from gene expression profiles to mouse ultrasonic vocalizations. Professor Smith has been with Puget Sound since 2013.

aasmith@pugetsound.edu

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Courtney Thatcher (On Sabbatical Leave)
PhD, University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Mathematics

Professor Thatcher received her BA from Boston University and MS and PhD from the University of Chicago. Her research interests are primarily in algebraic and geometric topology, computational topology, and large data set analysis. Professor Thatcher has been with Puget Sound since 2014.

cthatcher@pugetsound.edu

America Chambers
PhD, University of California, Irvine
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Professor Chambers earned her BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Swarthmore College and her Masters and PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, and statistical models of text. Professor Chambers has been with Puget Sound since 2015.

alchambers@pugetsound.edu

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Jacob Price
PhD, University of Washington
Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Professor Price received BA degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Kalamazoo College and an MS and a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. His interests are in scientific computing and multiscale simulation methods, as both a practical and theoretical tool. Almost any system of interest to scientists, in biology, chemistry, physics, or pure mathematics, can be understood at more than one scale of detail. He studies how these disparate scales interact with and inform one another. Professor Price joined Puget Sound in 2018.

jrprice@pugetsound.edu

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Xi Chen
PhD, Middle Tennessee State University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Professor Chen received her MS in Computer Science in 2017 and her PhD degree in Computational Science in 2019 from Middle Tennessee State University. Her research interests include graph theory algorithm and its applications. Professor Chen joined Puget Sound in Fall 2019.

xichen@pugetsound.edu

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Cynthia Gibson
PhD, University of Oregon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Professor Gibson received her BS with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Puget Sound in 1989. She received her MS and PhD degrees in Mathematics from the University of Oregon in 1991 and 1995, respectively. Professor Gibson started teaching at Puget Sound in 1996.​

cgibson@pugetsound.edu

Wendy Dove
MAT, University of Puget Sound
Instructor, Mathematics

Wendy received her BS and MAT from the University of Puget Sound. She has taught introductory mathematics and statistics for over 15 years. In addition, she has worked in institutional research, in actuarial science, in benefits consulting, and as a computer programmer. Wendy has been at Puget Sound since 2013.

wdove@pugetsound.edu

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Alison Paradise
MS, Washington State University
Instructor, Mathematics

Alison earned her BS in Mathematics and Economics (with minors in Computer Science and French) from Puget Sound in 1982, and her MS in Mathematics from Washington State University in 1988. Alison has been teaching introductory mathematics and statistics courses (and some introductory Computer Science) for about 30 years.

paradise@pugetsound.edu

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Matthew Pickard
MEd, University of Puget Sound
Instructor, Mathematics

BEd, University of Hawaii, 1980

MEd, University of Puget Sound, 1992

pickard@pugetsound.edu

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Emeriti Faculty

Rosemary Hirschfelder
Professor Emeritus

Chuck Hommel
Professor Emeritus

hommel@pugetsound.edu

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Jerry Kerrick
Professor Emeritus

jjkerrick@gmail.com

Bruce Lind
Professor Emeritus

lind@pugetsound.edu

Bob Matthews
Professor Emeritus

matthews@pugetsound.edu

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John Riegsecker
Professor Emeritus

David Scott
Professor Emeritus

Bryan Smith
Professor Emeritus

bryans@pugetsound.edu

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Ron Van Enkevort
Professor Emeritus

In Memoriam

John Lantz

Taught 1946 - 1987, died in 2006

Ed Goman

Taught 1947 - 1984, died in 1987

Carol Smith

Taught 1983 - 2003, died in 2012