Markus Hunziker, Ph.D.

Education

Ph. D., University of California, San Diego, 1997 (Advisor: Nolan R. Wallach)
Dipl. Phil. II, University of Basel, 1993 (Advisor: Hanspeter Kraft)

Biography

Dr. Hunziker joined the Baylor faculty in 2004. Prior to coming to Baylor he was teaching at Brandeis University (1997-2000) and at the University of Georgia (2000-2004). Dr. Hunziker is originally from Basel, Switzerland. He came to the USA for graduate school in 1993. He is married to Kyunglim Nam and has two children: Tobias, who was born in March 2007, and Hana, who was born in December 2008. He enjoys traveling, cooking, and spending time with his family and friends.

Academic Interests and Research

Dr. Hunziker's research area is the representation theory of Lie groups and related algebraic geometry and combinatorics.

Recent Publications

(with William Q. Erickson) Stanley decompositions of modules of covariants, Algebr. Comb. (n.d)

(with Martha Du Preez, William Q. Erickson, Jonathan Feigert, Jonathan Meddaugh, Mitchell Minyard, Mark R. Sepanski, and Kyle Rosengartner)  Robinson-Schensted shapes arising from cycle decompositions,  J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 222 (2026), 106180, 1-34.

(with Fritz Gesztezy) Essential self-adjointness of strongly singular homogeneous polyharmonic operators,   Ann. Henri Poincaré  (n.d.)

(with William Q. Erickson) Dimension identities, almost self-conjugate partitions, and BGG complexes for Hermitian symmetric pairs, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 219 (2026), 106118, 1-49.

 (with Zhanqiang Bai)  A characterization of unitarity of some highest weight Harish-Chandra modules, Forum Math. 38 (2026), 273-288.

(with Zhanqiang Bai, Xun Xi, and Roger Zierau) On the the associated variety of a highest weight Harish-Chandra module,  Int. Math. Res. Not. 2025 (2025),  rnaf095, 1-30.

(with Fritz Gesztesy) Meijer's G-function and Euler's differential equation revisited, Comput. Methods Funct. Theory 25 (2025), 889-911.

(with Fritz Gesztesy and Gerald Teschl)  Essential self-adjointness of even-order, strongly singular, homogeneous half-line differential operators, Ann. Henri Poincaré  26 (2025), 65-201. 

Ph.D. Students

Jonathan Feigert (in progress)
William Clark (in progress)
Guanjie Huang (2025)
John A. Miller (2020)
David N. Armour (2018)
Jordan Alexander (2014)
Gail Hartsock (2013)
W. Andrew Pruett (2010)

Postdoctoral Fellows

William Q. Erickson (2022-2025)
Martha E. Precup (2013-2016)

Teaching Interests

Dr. Hunziker's teaching interests range from introductory calculus classes for undergraduates to specialized courses for Ph.D. students. He has also taught teacher preparation courses. In fact, one of his favorite courses he taught was a geometry course for prospective elementary teachers at the University of Georgia.

Courses taught at Baylor

MTH 1321 - Calculus I
MTH 1322 - Calculus II
MTH 2321 - Calculus III
MTH 3300 - Foundations of Mathematics
MTH 3312 - Combinatorics and Algebra
MTH 3325 - Ordinary Differential Equations
MTH 3350 - Structure of Modern Geometry
MTH 4316 - Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory
MTH 5310 - Advanced Abstract Algebra I
MTH 5311 - Advanced Abstract Algebra II
MTH 5321 - Algebraic Topology
MTH 5340 - Differential Geometry
MTH 6V13 - Advanced Topics in Algebra
MTH 6V23 - Advanced Topics in Analysis
MTH 6V43 - Advanced Topics in Representation Theory
MTH 6V99 - Dissertation