Curtiss Lyman

Curtiss Lyman joined the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics in July 2025 as a Ju Tang Chu and Wui Ping Chu Assistant Professor. 

He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Washington in 2025, and a BSc in psychology from Tulane University in 2012 and an MS in mathematics from Western Washington University in 2017. 

Outside of academia, Lyman also worked in workforce development for the Seattle Colleges and as a data science consultant for the online dating site Coffee Meets Bagel. Lyman's research focuses on partial differential equations arising from condensed matter physics and the study of quantum materials. Recently, he has been interested in how Floquet-Bloch theory, spectral theory, and representation theory can be used to reduce the dimension of such problems when there are symmetries involved, and the impact this has on the physical behavior of the corresponding waves. This fall, Lyman will be teaching APMA2000E: Multivariable Calculus.

Research areas: Partial differential equations, representation theory, condensed matter physics, quantum materials