Henri Berestycki, Zbegniew Blocki, Qëndrim Gashi and Carlangelo Liverani joined the department in fall 2024.
The University of Maryland’s Department of Mathematics welcomed four visiting professors in fall 2024:
- Henri Berestycki
- Zbegniew Blocki
- Qëndrim Gashi
- Carlangelo Liverani
Berestycki is a professor at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and chair of the Mathematical Analysis and Modeling program in Paris. His research focuses on nonlinear partial differential equations and modeling in physics, biology, finance and social sciences. In November, he co-organized the “Disease Dynamics and Human Behavior” workshop at the Brin Mathematics Research Center.
Blocki is a professor in the Institute of Mathematics at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. From 2015 to 2023, he was director of the National Science Centre, a government agency that supports basic research in Poland. His main research areas are the complex analysis of several variables and partial differential equations.
Gashi is an associate professor of Mathematics at the University of Prishtina in Kosovo whose research focuses on representation theory, algebraic geometry, number theory and combinatorial aspects thereof. He previously served as Kosovo's Ambassador to France from 2016 to 2021, and in 2011 served as a foreign policy advisor to the president of Kosovo. He also founded the Kosovar Mathematical Society and served as its first president.
Liverani is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy. His main research interests include dynamical systems, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics. In September, he co-organized the “Macroscopic Behavior of Deterministic Systems” workshop at the Brin Mathematics Research Center.
