A professor of mathematics at UC San Diego who is also an adjunct professor in Computer Science and Engineering will take over on July 1 as the Interim Dean of Physical Sciences. Professor Jeffrey Remmel, who is currently the Associate Dean of the division, will take over temporarily for the outgoing Dean, Mark Thiemens. The campus has begun a national search for Thiemens' permanent successor, but the university tapped Remmel to serve as Interim Dean until his permanent replacement is appointed.
Remmel is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics, and he has been on the UC San Diego faculty since 1974. In addition to CSE, he is also adjunct faculty in the Rady School of Management. His current research interests include combinatorics, logic, and theoretical computer science. He has published over 300 papers in a variety of fields and has personally mentored and graduated 31 Ph.D. students. Remmel has been Associate Dean of Physical Sciences since 2001, and he chaired the Mathematics department from 1998 to 2002. Remmel is also co-director of the newly-created Center for Advancing Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education (CAMSEE), and serves on the UC Executive Committee for the California State Summer School in Mathematics and Science (COSMOS), for which CSE typically hosts at least one thrust for high-school students each summer on the UC San Diego campus.
Remmel has worked with faculty from across disciplines to establish new programs and encourage interdisciplinary research and scholarship. He served on the steering committees to establish the Ph.D. and undergraduate major in Bioinformatics, and spearheaded the effort to create new Ph.D. and M.S. programs in Computational Science, Mathematics and Engineering (CSME).