Robert Fefferman Named Dean of the Physical Sciences Division

Mathematician Robert Fefferman has been appointed Dean of the Physical Sciences Division and will serve a five-year term beginning July 1.

Fefferman, who is the Louis Block Professor in Mathematics and former Chair of the Department (1995–2001), specializes in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and probability theory. He joined the Chicago faculty in 1975 and is a recipient of the University’s Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and is a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is very active in mathematics education outreach, having worked for the past fifteen years with public school teachers at all levels, from elementary through senior high school. He received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland in 1972 and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975.

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