Current and Former Ph.D. students of


George E. Andrews
Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics
at the
Pennsylvania State University
Above photo by Leia Sills

Graduated Ph. D. Students:

  • David J. DeVries, Ph.D., Penn State, Aug. 1969. Thesis: "Lattices of Equivalence Relations and Generalized Primes." Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Georgia College & State University.
  • Edward Parberry, Ph.D., Penn State, Nov. 1969. Thesis: "On a Partition Function Related to the Theorem of Schur."
  • Ming-Po Chen, Ph.D., Penn State, May 1972. Thesis: "Asymptotic Theorems in Partition Theory."
  • Doris Mitchell, Ph.D., Penn State, May 1972. Thesis: "Generating Functions for Various Sets of Solid Partitions."
  • Willard Connor, Ph.D., Penn State, Aug. 1972. Thesis: "Partition Theorems Related to Some Identities of Rogers and Watson." Currently Associate Professor of Mathematics, Robert Morris University
  • Margret Kothmann, Ph.D., Penn State, May 1977. Thesis: "On the Ranks of Partitions." Currently on the faculty of the Department of Math, Stats and CS, University of Wisconsin--Stout
  • Kevin Kadell, Ph.D., Penn State,  Nov. 1979.  Thesis: "Generalizations of Basic Hypergeometric Series." Currently Professor of Mathematics, Arizona State University
  • Michael D. Hirschhorn, Ph.D.,University of New South Wales, 1980. Thesis: "Developments in the Theory of Partitions." Currently Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales.
  • Louis W. Kolitsch, Ph.D., Penn State, May 1985. Thesis: "Some Analytic and Arithemtic Properties of Generalized Frobenius Partitions." Currently Professor of Mathematics, University of Tennessee at Martin.
  • Frank Garvan, Ph.D.,  Penn State, Jan. 1986. Thesis: "Generalizations of Dyson's Rank." Currently Professor of Mathematics, University of Florida
  • Nicolas Santa-Gadea, Ph.D., Penn State, Dec. 1990, Thesis: "On the Rank and the Crank Moduli 8, 9, and 12"
  • J. Plínio O. Santos, Ph.D., Penn State, 1991. Thesis: "Computer Algebra and Identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan Type." Depto. de Matemática Aplicada,  Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
  • Kuo-Jye Chen , Ph.D., Penn State, Aug. 1992. Thesis: "An Asymptotic Formula in Partition Theory."
    • Currently at the Department of Mathematics, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan.
  • Garth Payne, Ph.D.,  Penn State, Dec. 1997. Thesis: "Multivariate Hypergeometric Terms."
  • Jeremy Lovejoy, (co-advisee of Ken Ono and George Andrews) Ph.D., Penn State, 2000. Thesis: "Arithmetic of Partition Functions." CR2, CNRS, LIAFA Université Paris VII
  • Andrew V. Sills, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, May 2002. Thesis: "Computer Assisted Explorations of Rogers-Ramanujan Type Identities." Hill Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University, 2003-2007.
  • Augustine Munagi, Ph.D., University of Lagos (Nigeria), 2005. Thesis: "Restricted Partition Formulas, q-Partial Fractions and the Rademacher Conjecture." Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the John Knopfmacher Centre for Applicable Analysis and Number Theory, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    • Current PhD students:

  • William Keith, Ph.D. candidate, Pennsylvania State University
  • Michael J. Rowell, (co-advisee of Ae Ja Yee and George Andrews) Ph.D. Candidate, Pennsylvania State University
  • Heiko Todt, Ph.D. student, Pennsylvania State University
  • Kagan Kursungoz, Ph.D. student, Pennsylvania State University


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