Directorate and Staff

Directorate

Kevin Corlette

Director

Kevin Corlette was appointed as the Director of IMSI on August 1, 2020. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago since 1987. He served as chair of the department from 2001-2007, and again from 2017-2020. In addition, he served as director of the Masters Program in Financial Mathematics from 2012-2015. His research lies in differential and algebraic geometry, and has touched on areas such as non-Abelian Hodge theory, rigidity of lattices in Lie groups, and representations of fundamental groups of Kähler manifolds. He was a recipient of an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award. He was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians.

Dibyen Majumdar

Associate Director

Dibyen Majumdar was appointed Associate Director of IMSI on January 1, 2023. He is Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he assumed the position of Assistant Professor in 1982. From 2009 to 2011 he was the Associate Dean of Research and Space of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and from 2011 to 2022, the Executive Associate Dean of the College. Prior to that he was an Associate Head of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science from 2004 to 2007, and the Director of the Statistical Consulting Lab from 1991 to 2005. He is a statistician whose main area of research is design of experiments, and it also includes the theory and methodology of linear and nonlinear models, and applications of statistics in biomedical research, especially design and analysis of clinical trials. His work on supersaturated design won the Shewell Award in 2013.

Takis Souganidis

Scientific Adviser

Takis Souganidis is Professor of Mathematics and Member of the Committee in Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He works in deterministic and stochastic partial differential equations, and is interested in applied mathematics. He was a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award. He was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians and the 2019 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, AMS, and SIAM.

Philip W. Hammer

Executive Director

Philip (Bo) W. Hammer was appointed Executive Director of IMSI on January 1, 2021. Hammer comes to IMSI after 10 years at the American Institute of Physics, where he was the founding and interim Executive Director of the AIP Foundation. He also led AIP’s major antiracism initiative that addressed under representation of African Americans in physics and astronomy. Hammer received his BS in Physics from Humboldt State University and his PhD in Physics from the University of Oregon. From 1991-93, Hammer was an ONR Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Silver Spring, MD. Hammer spent the ‘93-’94 year as an APS Congressional Science Fellow working on the staff of the Subcommittee on Science in the US House of Representatives. He worked at AIP from 1994-2000, and was Director of the Society of Physics Students and Sigma Pi Sigma. From 2000-2008, Hammer was a vice president The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. Hammer is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Staff

Denise Slavinski

Assistant Director

Bernard Davis

Director of IT and AV Services

Sam Hansen

Director of Communications and Engagement

Rebecca Heffner

Program Coordinator

Deborah Jones

Program Coordinator

June Lo

Program Coordinator

Fuad Khaleel

Financial Administrator

Lauren Neher

Program Assistant

Heydi Rivera

Program Assistant