Professor Emeritus, Mathematics; PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Shiffman received a B.S. from MIT in 1964 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from UC-Berkeley in 1968. Before coming to Hopkins in 1973, he held post-doctoral positions at MIT and Yale. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1973 and is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. At Hopkins, he served twice as Chair of the Mathematics Department and served on the Faculty Editorial Board of the Hopkins Press and on the Homewood Academic Council. He was Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Mathematics from 1993 to 2005. His research is in complex geometry and mathematical analysis.
Current Interests: Surveys and publications on solutions of random functions and on geometric packing arrangements in macromolecular crystals